Chap. 8.—An ACT Incorporating the Virginia Porcelain and Terra-
cotta Company in the County of Augusta.

Approved January 20, 1874.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That William y
Green, Hugh Stewart, Richard H. King, William Easton, 4
Frederick H. Haughton and Henry Lamb, of the county of i
Augusta, and such others as may be hereafter associated with
them, shall be and are hereby incorporated and made a body
politic and corporate, under the name and style of the Vir-
ginia Porcelain and Terracotta Company, for the purpose of
mining Kaolin, and manufacturing porcelain, china, and other
earthenware, and fire brick, and terracotta ware generally,
and disposing of their products in the market; and they are x
hereby invested with all the rights, and subject to all the «
provisions and restrictions imposed on such bodies politic °
and corporate by the fifty-sixth and fifty-seventh ehapters of ,
the Code of Virginia, of eighteen hundred and seventy-three, c
so far as the same are not inconsistent with the purposes of
this act.

2. That the capital stock of said company shall not be less ¢
than thirty thousand dollars, nor more than one hundred
thousand dollars, to be divided into shares of one hundred
dollars each; and the said company shall have authority to
purchase and hold land, not exceeding five thousand acres at
any one time, in the counties of Augusta, Rockbridge, and
Nelson, and may sell and convey the same, or lease or in-
cumber the same, and in general to do and perform all acts
and business of the company aforesaid, which as an incorpo-
rated company, by the laws of the state of Virginia, they
may do and perform.

3. Whenever the persons ‘above named, in person or by
proxy, shall meet together in Staunton, and with such other
persons as they may associate with them, shall subscribe so
much of the capital stock in said company as is sufficient to
incorporate the subscribers, from seach trme the said subscri-
bers, their executors, administrators or assigns, shall stand
incorporated under this charter.

4. This act shall be in force from its passage.